Mean Quote by Frank Zappa

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

— Robert Barry

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them…

— Virginia Hamilton

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time…

— Aidan Gillen

“There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches…

— Dani Harper

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any…

— Nick Hornby

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in…

— Jaron Lanier

For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write.

— Elizabeth Berg

Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard.…

— Edwin H Friedman

Sometimes, people write the things they can't say

— Haley James Scott

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

— Lisa See

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

— Jimmy Buffett

I think sometimes I tap into other people. I sometimes write about other things that I see or just different situations.

— Susan Tedeschi